The Kansas Children’s Discovery Center has opened the national traveling exhibit, “Thomas and Friends: Explore the Rails,” based on the beloved Thomas the Train.

Britt Allcroft, the creative force behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends television series, has passed away at the age of 81. Her daughter, Holly Wright, confirmed that Allcroft ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica at 81. Thomas started out as a ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway ...

She was 81. She was responsible for bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive, to television and starting a popular and successful franchise. Holly Wright, Allcroft's daughter ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. She spent four years alongside her husband - TV producer Angus Wright - raising funds to create the first 26 episodes. The show was a ...

The creator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Britt Allcroft, has died at 81-years-old. Allcroft was best known as a ...

The TV producer was behind bringing the beloved children's series to life in the 1970s after securing the rights to adapt ...

Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. After forming the Britt Allcroft Company with her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the ...